Moscow - USSR, 23 August 1939.  Stalin, Molotov, Ribbentrop, von Schulenburg and Gustav Hilger hold talks, a "non-aggression" pact is signed by Ribbentrop and Molotov and then officially published. There was also signed a secret supplementary protocol on the "spheres of interest".

New York - USA, 24 August 1939.   The official news from Moscow about the "nonaggression" pact reach the American Communists. Browder names Amter, Minor, and Krumbein to work on the development.

Note on Some Communist-Nazi Agents, the US 1939-41

* Earl Browder, head of the Communist Party USA, copious criminal record.

* Israel Amter, born in Denver, Colorado on 26 March 1881. Wife and he arrested many times, charged with "criminal syndycalism, unlawful assembly, and felonious assault".

* Rober Minor, born in San Antonio, Texas on 15 July 1884, record "riddled with arrests".

* Charles Krumbein. Had "served eighteen months in the Federal prison for a passport violation". Was made State Secretary of the Communist Party in Detroit in 1938.

* Frederick V. Field, born in 1905. The "millionaire comrade" (mentioned by Whittaker Chambers in Witness, New York : Random House, 1952), secretary of American Peace Mobilization, a pro-Nazi anti-war Communist front, from the late June 1941 an anti-Nazi pro-war Communist front. (This was a Communist front organisation formerly known as the American League for Peace and Democracy, renamed in Sept 1939, then re-renamed and, it seemes, eventually re-re-renamed).

* Paul Robeson (1898-1976).   Singer, was an active member of the American Peace Mobilization (a Communist front) ; "long a darling of the Reds" (G. S. Schuyler).

* Vito Marcantonio (1902 - 1954). A Congressman in New York, one of the leaders of the pro-Nazi American Peace Mobilization (a Communist front) in the period of the Soviet/Nazi alliance.

* Joseph P. Lash, born in 1909. A "friend" of Eleanor Roosevelt whom he had skillfully bamboozled. Head of American Student Union (a Communist front).

* Joseph Cadden. Head of American Youth Congress (a Communist front), together with Joseph P. Lash had been subverting Eleanor Roosevelt ; was active in the "Join with us in this Vigil for Peace" (at the times of Hitler's aggressions in alliance with Stalin).

* Harold Christoffel, member of American Peace Mobilisation, a front group for the Communist Party USA.

* Kenneth Eggert, one time Secretary of the Communist Party in Toledo, Ohio, organised the Harvill strike in Los Angeles.

* Wyndham Mortimer, Communist Party member, organiser of strike at Vultee Aircraft.

* Grant Oakes, played an important part in the American Peace Mobilisation, a Communist front. Organised strike at International Harvester.

* Otto Wangerin, "an old hand at strike fomenting", reportedly worked with Pat Toohey in Detroit.

* Pat Toohey, "impressive record of successful strikes", replaced Elmer Johnson as Secretary of the Detroit Communist Party District Number 7 whose post was taken from him for "failing to bring about a strike at General Motors".

Note   "The Aluminum Company of America, North American Aviation and Trona, all huge producers of essential equipment were suffering from strikes engineered by the American Peace Mobilization crew" (but I do not know who "the workers" involved were).